A Chinese photographer based in New York, Michael Shi took up photography at an early age but only as a hobby for 15 years, until he quit his professional marketing job at a Fortune 500 company. In 2009, he started his own studio in Shanghai and later worked as the Art Director for an Alibaba-invested E-commerce company. Some of his clients included Nike, Nine West, and Levis.

Michael holds a Masters of Statistics and an MBA. His academic background and business vision greatly add to his expertise in lighting techniques and have cultivated his abilities to manage any art projects. These diverse experiences, along with twenty years of working within every aspect of photography (portrait, landscape, fashion, commercial, product, dance, and street), have helped to shape his visual style.

Michael’s work demonstrates a clean, colorful, character-driven narrative. His new project, Colors of Dance, has received critical acclaim from within both the dance and photography world. He has won numerous international awards and exhibited his work in Philadelphia and New York.